Lord Sumption and the limits of the law

"This volume arises out of a conference held in the University of Oxford in October 2014."

Includes full text of lecture "The limits of the law", originally presented as the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 20, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword : beyond the limits / Timothy Endicott -- Introduction / NW Barber, Richard Ekins and Paul Yowell -- The limits of law / Lord Sumption -- Sumption's assumptions / Martin Loughlin -- Living trees or deadwood : the interpretive challenge of the European Convention on Human Rights / Sandra Fredman -- Judges, interpretation and self-government / Lord Hoffmann -- Judicial law-making and the 'living' instrumentalisation of the ECHR / John Finnis -- The role of courts in the joint enterprise of governing / Aileen Kavanagh -- Three wrong turns in Lord Sumption's conception of law and democracy / Jeff King -- The human rights act and "coordinate construction" : towards a "parliament square" axis for human rights? / Carol Harlow -- Limits of law : reflections from private and public law / Paul Craig -- The limits of Lord Sumption: limited legal constitutionalism and the political form of the ECHR / Richard Bellamy -- A response / Lord Sumption.